Bay Area and a visit to their cardrooms

The Bay Area, CA is one of my favorite places to visit, mainly because of the weather. When you live in a city as hot as Las Vegas and go to the Bay Area, its going from one extreme to another. When we left Vegas it was a record-setting 115 degrees, but the Bay Area stayed around 70 the entire time.

My brother live Hayward which is about 15 minutes away from SF. So it was nice seeing my nephews and niece. My brother took my finance and I to a small little cardroom called Casino San Pablo located outside of Oakland. I've been to bad cardrooms before, but this has the rank as the worst one of all. First of all it's in a bad location so the clientel was very "shady" I felt I was going to get robbed at any moment. The games sucked as they raked 4 bucks no matter what was in the pot, so it wasn't even worth it to play 3-6 limit, and the dealers were surly and rude. None of them ever said Thank you when you tipped them. After 20 minutes and 20 bucks later, I didn't want to play anymore. It was just an absolutely unpleasant experience.

The night before we left my finance and I visited Bay 101...Although we didn't get a chance to play ( the waiting list was ridicoulously long), it was fun watching how this room jumps. It seemed very well run and organized. I definately have to put this cardroom as a place to play on my next visit.

On the poker front, haven't played since I came back. I put in a 3 hrs session on Stars 1-2 Omaha Hi Lo and after a rough start I managed to squeeze out a small profit. The Orleans Open is about to begin tommorrow. I plan on getting in on a few events.

Omaha Madness

I love Omaha Hi Lo. It's become my absolute favorite cash game. I play it exclusively on Pokerstars and a few Vegas Casinos that spread them. It's a game with so many hand combinations that'll drive you insane, and of course it's a frustrated game where you can have the best hand/draw going to the river only to be counterfiited. With that said I believe it's a very beatable game because not to many people know how to play it correctly. As an example, here in Vegas there are a few players who play it regularly, but still have no clue what they're doing which makes it very lucritive. The typical 4-8 game at Red Rock is easier than the typical 1-2 on Stars.

I've also cashed in quite a few Omaha tourneys, both Pot Limit and Limit. In all cashes I've put myself in a position to win the tournament, but I seemed to always get a tough beat at the wrong time. Hopefully things with turn around and I could win those coin flips

I'm heading to San Francisco this Wednesday to visit my brother. Hopefully, I can find time to visit one of my favorite cardrooms, BAY 101 in San Jose.

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